On to the pics. More to follow tomorrow.
Monday, July 8, 2013
Dr Who experience pictures.
Sorry it's taken so long but I have been making the most of the fine weather.
On to the pics. More to follow tomorrow.
On to the pics. More to follow tomorrow.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
The Dr Who experience Cardiff
Went to the Dr Who experience today, if your a fan of Dr Who you'll enjoy a visit. The tour is interactive, with visits to the Tardis and a few other 'sets', after the tour theres a sort of museum of Dr Who stuff where you can take photos (not allowed on the interactive part) lots to see and shoot. The trip took us about two hours with a bit of time spent taking pics. Note it's fairly dark so you'll need flash or a camera with decent high iso.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Wedding/reception venues
As having spent some years as a wedding photographer I wonder about the sanity of people who design/prepare wedding venues.
Many places (the majority in fact) seem to forget that weddings have a photographer and often a video crew. Why for example cover the entire wall behind the top table with mirrors, the Bride can't see them, shes got her back to the bloody things, but god help the photographer/guest who want to take pics of the speeches, they are reflected in every shot, pointless and an expensive waste of time.
Then there are the top tables against the windows, yes lets back light the entire wedding party, it helps no one, they are in their own shade, that means we have to use lights or flash with the same reflection issues of the mirrors.
The latest 'fad' I've encountered is the 'gloom room', yes the bloody rooms blacked out, I was at a friends wedding a few weeks ago, blazing sunny day (and we don't get many here) yet the reception rooms like the black hole of Calcutta, talk about depressing, the dessert was Prozac! and another with the mirrors behind the top table. You had to use flash, I nearly needed night vision goggles, it was so bloody dark none of could see what we were eating.
My final whinge is the venues (mostly churches) who use those horrible yellow sodium lights, yes I know they are cheap but did the bride really pay two grand for her dress to look like a banana! If she's wanter a yellow dress I suspect she'd have bought one.
Many places (the majority in fact) seem to forget that weddings have a photographer and often a video crew. Why for example cover the entire wall behind the top table with mirrors, the Bride can't see them, shes got her back to the bloody things, but god help the photographer/guest who want to take pics of the speeches, they are reflected in every shot, pointless and an expensive waste of time.
Then there are the top tables against the windows, yes lets back light the entire wedding party, it helps no one, they are in their own shade, that means we have to use lights or flash with the same reflection issues of the mirrors.
The latest 'fad' I've encountered is the 'gloom room', yes the bloody rooms blacked out, I was at a friends wedding a few weeks ago, blazing sunny day (and we don't get many here) yet the reception rooms like the black hole of Calcutta, talk about depressing, the dessert was Prozac! and another with the mirrors behind the top table. You had to use flash, I nearly needed night vision goggles, it was so bloody dark none of could see what we were eating.
My final whinge is the venues (mostly churches) who use those horrible yellow sodium lights, yes I know they are cheap but did the bride really pay two grand for her dress to look like a banana! If she's wanter a yellow dress I suspect she'd have bought one.
Friday, June 21, 2013
Why doesn't anything work properly???
I've got sticky tape that won't stick to anything, I've got a mobile phone that hides the bloody keypad! Handy if you need to phone the emergency services in a hurry.
My strimmer (or string breaker as I like to call the bastard) is totally unfit for purpose. My front garden isn't very big but it's taken me an hour to strim it because 15 seconds strimming equates to two minutes of repairing the stupid pathetic excuse for string they use, and I've bought the heavy duty one, God help if you've got the 'normal' string, it must be like cotton.
I have a car jack that won't lift the weight of my car (so I had to buy a proper trolley jack, miles better and quicker) and I have a spare wheel thats a different size to the rest of the wheels on the car (space saver they call them) I wouldn't mind but A my car is freaking huge! so plenty of space for a proper bloody wheel, and B they are technically illegal in the UK, the law here states that wheels and tyres must be the same on any axle, not different sizes.
Gets off soapbox and goes for a stiff drink.
My strimmer (or string breaker as I like to call the bastard) is totally unfit for purpose. My front garden isn't very big but it's taken me an hour to strim it because 15 seconds strimming equates to two minutes of repairing the stupid pathetic excuse for string they use, and I've bought the heavy duty one, God help if you've got the 'normal' string, it must be like cotton.
I have a car jack that won't lift the weight of my car (so I had to buy a proper trolley jack, miles better and quicker) and I have a spare wheel thats a different size to the rest of the wheels on the car (space saver they call them) I wouldn't mind but A my car is freaking huge! so plenty of space for a proper bloody wheel, and B they are technically illegal in the UK, the law here states that wheels and tyres must be the same on any axle, not different sizes.
Gets off soapbox and goes for a stiff drink.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Rain on leaves
Well it looks like summers had it!, Still we did have a week or so of actual sunshine so I shouldn't grumble really.
A few pics from yesterday of the rain on leaves.
A few pics from yesterday of the rain on leaves.
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